Terminal TiltMar 15

Tired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.

I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.

Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.

https://get.kiwix.org/en/

#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI

Show threadPete the Gopher Keeper
@terminaltilt @kiwix great to see thinking like this - it helps that we can now have affordable large drives to hold all this good stuff! I once foolishly thought that I'd never need 4Tb 😁. If you can find it, the WikiHow ZIM is really worth having - a fantastic resource.
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Show threadPete the Gopher Keeper6d ago

@terminaltilt @kiwix Edit: there's a reason why it's no longer available but there are still copies available onljne.
https://hub.kiwix.org/weblog/2025/1/wikihow-content-has-been-deprecated/

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WikiHow content has been deprecated

TL;DR: the WikiHow zim files have been deleted and there are no plans to bring them back. The longer story is that the WikiHow folks reached out around the end of 2024 asking for their removal. Their content is apparently being harvested left and right by LLMs for their training, and they are trying to

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